Gout patients should always pay attention to the changes in their condition, and timely intervene through effective methods if the condition is aggravated, only if the uric acid index is stable, and excessive uric acid production can be metabolized normally, it will not bring obvious harm to the body. So, what details do gout patients need to pay attention to when judging their condition?
1. Medication
Self-assessment of gout can be known according to one's own medication behavior, generally after the discovery of gout, according to the doctor's guidance and standard medication, with the help of scientific medication, most people's condition can be improved.
However, if you are not active in taking medication, sometimes you forget to take medication, sometimes the dosage and time of medication are not clear, it may cause a delay in the disease, and people with this behavior are more likely to have aggravated the disease. However, if you are highly cooperative and take medication relatively aggressively after the disease is found and need treatment, it is usually relieved.
2. Changes in blood pressure
People with gout can judge their condition by measuring their blood pressure.
There is a close correlation between gout and high blood pressure, long-term high uric acid state, in addition to gout, it will also make a variety of other chronic diseases attack, gout is a kind of metabolic disease, and the blood pressure spike at a certain stage is the result, and you will find yourself with high blood pressure. Therefore, blood pressure should be measured during the evaluation of the condition, and if the blood pressure is too high, it is likely to be a hyperuricemia effect.
3. Whether the joint is deformed
Observe your own joints, and you can preliminarily judge whether gout is worse through the changes in your own joints.
During the development of gout, excessive accumulation of urate crystals can cause irritation to the joints, causing local redness, swelling, heat and pain, which may be swollen and accompanied by significant pain. If the condition worsens and brings tophi, there will be abnormal changes in the joints and possibly joint deformities, which can occur in more severe forms of gout.
4. Systemic symptoms
At the beginning, the uric acid is high, the gout is not very serious, and there are basically no systemic symptoms, but for patients with stubborn disease and long onset, the disease will continue to progress, and there will be systemic disease symptoms.
In the case of endocrine abnormalities, liver and kidney function decreases to varying degrees, which leads to difficult complications in the future. If there are more than one other problem at the same time, it means that the condition is more serious.
5. Whether the pain is obvious
According to the pain of the body is conducive to the assessment of the condition, at the beginning of high uric acid, has not developed into severe gout, there may be occasional joint pain, and with the outbreak of gout, the obvious symptom is local recurrent pain, as a typical symptom in the acute period, the pain will be repeated and have a tendency to worsen, sometimes the pain of the bone will limit the movement of the local joints.
It's not the same as before, but the pain is unbearable, which means that the condition has worsened.
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